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Meanwhile Apple, also sitting on infinite cash, is easily entertained by toying with regulators around the world and contributes back almost nothing in comparis

by hu3 1y ago

Meanwhile Apple, also sitting on infinite cash, is easily entertained by toying with regulators around the world and contributes back almost nothing in comparison to Google. Heck, they can't even be bothered to fund a single developer to help their hardware run Linux.

prepend 1y ago
Why would Apple have developers working on their hardware running Linux? Apple doesn’t use Linux. They aren’t the biggest oss dev, but they have a decent amount of contributions. [0][1] It’s hard to compare how much Google vs Apple contributes to open source, but not sure why anyone would think Apple “contributes back almost nothing.” [0] https://github.com/appleopen https://github.com/appleopen [1] https://opensource.apple.com/projects/ https://opensource.apple.com/projects/
- hu3 1y ago
  Please stare at your own links for a second. Let me help you: https://github.com/orgs/appleopen/repositories?q=sort%3Astars https://github.com/orgs/appleopen/repositories?q=sort%3Astar... Their most popular repo in that entire account has 8 stars. I have multiple personal repos with more usage than that. As for the other link. More than half of those projects are Apple specific.
  - fnfjfk 1y ago
    https://github.com/swiftlang/swift https://github.com/swiftlang/swift
  - prepend 1y ago
    Look at the second link. Many of their projects aren’t in appleopen. That’s great you have personal repos with more than 8 stars!
  - saagarjha 1y ago
    Those aren't official repositories; they're just someone's mirror.
selfhoster 1y ago
Agreed, between Google, Microsoft and Apple, Apple is the worst in not contributing jack back to the world. I can't stand how Microsoft was able to get to their status using evil means but at least the Microsoft of today does give back open and free (at least in beer) products. Google is the best of the three in this regard. Come to think of it, not sure where I'd place Amazon on that scale.

by hu3 1y ago

prepend 1y ago

Why would Apple have developers working on their hardware running Linux? Apple doesn’t use Linux. They aren’t the biggest oss dev, but they have a decent amount of contributions. [0][1] It’s hard to compare how much Google vs Apple contributes to open source, but not sure why anyone would think Apple “contributes back almost nothing.” [0] https://github.com/appleopen https://github.com/appleopen [1] https://opensource.apple.com/projects/ https://opensource.apple.com/projects/

hu3 1y ago
Please stare at your own links for a second. Let me help you: https://github.com/orgs/appleopen/repositories?q=sort%3Astars https://github.com/orgs/appleopen/repositories?q=sort%3Astar... Their most popular repo in that entire account has 8 stars. I have multiple personal repos with more usage than that. As for the other link. More than half of those projects are Apple specific.
- fnfjfk 1y ago
  https://github.com/swiftlang/swift https://github.com/swiftlang/swift
- prepend 1y ago
  Look at the second link. Many of their projects aren’t in appleopen. That’s great you have personal repos with more than 8 stars!
- saagarjha 1y ago
  Those aren't official repositories; they're just someone's mirror.

selfhoster 1y ago

Agreed, between Google, Microsoft and Apple, Apple is the worst in not contributing jack back to the world. I can't stand how Microsoft was able to get to their status using evil means but at least the Microsoft of today does give back open and free (at least in beer) products. Google is the best of the three in this regard. Come to think of it, not sure where I'd place Amazon on that scale.